This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Completely Ban 'harmful' Single-Use Plastics by 2021.
Rejected on
Currently, it is estimated 1 million birds die every year due to plastic waste, 100,000 marine mammals are killed by plastic pollution every year with 1 garbage truck per minute of every day entering our oceans and by 2050 there being more plastic then fish in them.
Following the lead of Canada completely ban 'harmful' single-use plastics by 2021. This step will go further then the current proposed ban of plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds by April 2020.
https://freshlittlelove.com/blogs/blog/10-ways-to-stop-using-single-use-plastic
https://www.ecowatch.com/22-facts-about-plastic-pollution-and-10-things-we-can-do-about-it-1881885971.html
http://plastic-pollution.org/
https://www.businessinsider.com/plastic-in-ocean-outweighs-fish-evidence-report-2017-1?r=US&IR=T
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/259176
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.